Chapter 90: Sealing up the Shangshu Province
After receiving Zhao Xu's order, Chen Pi quickly drafted an edict and left the palace, and ordered Nan Tianyou to take more than 50 people from the Imperial City Division to rush straight to the Secretariat.
When the Shangshu Province saw Chen Pi and the Imperial City Office of the brigade rushed over, they were panicked. When the doctor on duty saw it, he hurried out to greet him, raised his hand and said, "I wonder what Eunuch Chen has to do?"
Chen Pi looked at him, took the imperial edict, and said lightly: "The Secretariat received the imperial edict."
The doctor was a little stunned. The Secretariat had not accepted the emperor's order for some years, but for only a moment, he quickly raised his hand and said, "I have to pay the imperial edict."
Chenpi spread out the imperial edict and said directly: "I Shaoyingjun's order: Bo Gong succeeded to the throne, was trembling, like walking on thin ice, and did not dare to be lazy. However, the monarch and ministers were not in contact with each other, and the law was not in accordance with the law. The Secretariat violated the sage order, disrespectful to the emperor, and looked down on the emperor. His heart was unpredictable... He ordered the Imperial City Department to seal the Secretariat, punish the past and prevent the future, and cure the illness and save the people! I admire this!"
Bao Qin looked shocked, looked up at Chenpi in disbelief, and stuttered: "Check the Secretariat of the Secretariat?"
Tangerine closed the imperial edict and waved her hand expressionlessly.
Nan Tianyou immediately led people to rush in and shouted loudly: "No one should move around, and those who move around are planning to deal with it!"
Bao Qin still couldn't believe that the Secretariat had been sealed off? He was so shocked that he couldn't speak, and he had no idea what to do!
Nan Tianyou led his men to drive out all the people in the Shangshu Province, sealed the rooms one by one, and sealed them.
After a long time, Bao Qin finally came back to her senses, looked at Chen Pi in panic and said, "Eunuch Chen, what does this mean? We, the Secretary of State, have no ill cases?"
Everyone can still accept the seizure of the Three Secretariats. After all, it involves millions of deficits and the "disappearance" of military pay from Huanqing Road. But even if there are corruption cases in the Shangshu Province, how many can it be? There is no need to seal it, right?
Chen Pi held his hands and watched Nan Tianyou do things. When he saw Bao Qin ask, he snorted coldly and said, "How did you do the Ministry of Revenue raise money and grain? Even though he knew it was Your Majesty's order, he dared to delay it again and again! His Majesty didn't see any official documents and memorials on Huanqing Road! What did your Majesty do to summon, you are completely indifferent, and you go out with your left ear. Are there anyone who deceives the emperor more than you?!"
Bao Qin looked at Chen Pi and said quietly: "Eunuch Chen has always been like this. It is not that he is disrespectful to His Majesty. The court's regulations are unbreakable..."
Chen Pi smiled angrily and said, "So, it is only if Mr. Lu comes to the rules? Do you still have Your Majesty in the eyes of your Secretariat? In your eyes, your Majesty's will is not as good as a piece of waste toilet paper?"
Bao Qin was speechless and had a lot of words blocked.
This is the truth. They have been doing things like this and have been doing it for many years.
Seeing that Chen Pi was holding the emperor to suppress him, Bao Qin had no choice but to say, "I don't know what Your Majesty is going to do?"
Chen Pi said: "If the Secretariat is sealed, it will not be opened without His Majesty's will."
Bao Qin understood that the yamen of the Shangshu Province was sealed, but they were fine.
Bao Qin felt relieved and watched Nan Tianyou drive people out. He followed him out and watched with his own eyes the gate of Shangshu Province be sealed, and the imperial guards of the Imperial City Department were guarded on both sides.
Tangerine peel didn't say nonsense, and she left after sealing it.
Bao Qin looked at the backs of Chen Pi and the group of people and turned around and headed to Fan Chunren's mansion.
Fan Chunren is the Minister of Shangshu Zuo Pushe and the person in charge of Shangshu Province.
At this moment, Fan Chunren had heard another bad news - the passing of Empress Dowager Xiang.
He sat in the pavilion, his face was deserted and obscure.
He knew some things in the palace, but he didn't expect that Empress Dowager Xiang would die so quickly. He didn't know who made the move, so he was inclined to Zhao Xu.
A person who killed his legitimate mother, even if this legitimate mother is vicious, is not so easy to accept, let alone the Emperor of the Song Dynasty!
Fan Chunren's expression was deserted and she drank silently.
He was thinking about what happened recently, and the violent shock and changes in the situation made him feel very uneasy.
This young official was too impulsive. He only knew how to break through, but did not know how to adapt, compromise, or give in. If this continues, it may be more turbulent than during the reign of Emperor Shenzong. The people are like soup and boiling, and the people are in trouble. All kinds of so-called uprisings are coming one after another and continuing.
If another reform occurs, will the Song Dynasty still hold on?
Then, Fan Chunren thought of Huanqing Road. Xia people were eyeing each other and chaos in the capital was rising. Can the morale of Huanqing Road not be affected?
Internal and external troubles!
Fan Chunren sighed lightly and said to himself: "I hope this official can be like His Majesty the Emperor of the Divine Sect..."
He no longer expected Zhao Xu to be like Renzong. If he could be like Shenzong, he would be quite generous and kind. He would listen to his loyal advice and would not act alone or do whatever he wanted.
Just as Fan Chunren's voice fell, a servant came to report that Bao Qin was coming.
Fan Chunren suddenly felt bad and sat and waited.
Sure enough, as soon as Bao Qin came in, he gave Fan Chunren a blow.
Fan Chunren felt the luck that had just happened to be gone, and looked shocked, and then he was stunned and stunned.
The Imperial City Department seized the Secretariat!
This is something that has never happened since the founding of the Song Dynasty, right? Is this official really not at all concerned? Are you not afraid of political affairs being abolished? Is the government and the public criticism, and the world is boiling?
Bao Qin looked at Fan Chunren's expression and whispered: "My husband, I just sealed the yamen and did not arrest anyone."
Fan Chunren was old in the officialdom, but he had never seen such a thing. He had no words for a moment.
The three officials' yamen were sealed off, and now it is the Secretariat. Is this official deliberately trying to paralyze the court?
Seeing that Fan Chunren was not speaking, Bao Qin said again: "My grandpa, the emperor thinks that this is Your Majesty deliberately establishing his authority with the Minister of the Secretariat."
When he arrived at Fan Chunren's position, even if the other party was a reckless man, he would consider more layers. Moreover, the one on the opposite side, judging from the methods he had done these days, he didn't look like a reckless man.
Fan Chunren thought about it and couldn't guess Zhao Xu's intentions, but had to be alert and said, "Chen Pi said, one is the edicts about Your Majesty, and the other is the military pay for Huanqing Road?"
Bao Qin hurriedly said, "Yes."
Fan Chunren picked up the wine glass, took a sip subconsciously, and said, "Who is on duty in the Zhengshi Hall?"
Bao Qin said: "No one, Fan Zhongshu is said to be in poor health and left the palace early in the morning. Su Xianggong sat in the Political Affairs Hall for a while before returning to the Privy Council."
Fan Chunren snorted coldly as he heard this, saying, "Since they all like to hide, I will hide too. You go immediately and write a leave-by letter for me and hand it over. Then he said I am sick and I will deliver it tomorrow morning."
Bao Qin looked at Fan Chunren and said with a little surprise: "My husband, you are taking leave, so the government affairs are really in chaos."
The Empress Dowager did not come to the court, the emperor was upright, the queen was married, the corruption case of the Three Officials, the Secretariat was sealed, and the prime minister closed his house and reflected on himself. None of these things was trivial!
Naturally, he didn't know that Empress Dowager Xiang was gone.
Fan Chunren waved his hand and said, "Go."
Bao Qin didn't dare to persuade him, so he responded and left Fan's mansion hesitantly.
Chapter completed!